Posted on 10/04/2021 1:04:50 PM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
DNS appears to be a symptom of the root cause of Facebook's global failure. Don't expect a quick fix.
The old network troubleshooting saying is, when anything goes wrong, "It's DNS." This time Domain Name Server (DNS) appears to be the symptom of the root cause of the Facebook global failure.
The true cause is that there are no working Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes into Facebook's sites.
BGP is the standardized exterior gateway protocol used to exchange routing and reachability information between the internet top-level autonomous systems (AS).
Most people, indeed most network administrators, never need to deal with BGP.
Many people spotted that Facebook was no longer listed on DNS. Indeed, there were joke posts offering to sell you the Facebook.com domain.
Cloud fare VP Dane Knecht was the first to report the underlying BGP problem.
This meant, as Kevin Beaumont, former Microsoft's Head of Security Operations Centre, tweeted, "By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the internet.
Same with WhatsApp btw. Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform."
Whoops.
As annoying as this is to you, it may be even more annoying to Facebook employees.
There are reports that Facebook employees can't enter their buildings because their "smart" badges and doors were also disabled by this network failure. If true, Facebook's people literally can't enter the building to fix things.
(Excerpt) Read more at zdnet.com ...
Awwwww gee....so sad.
When Facebook comes back, there will be only one post.
“This is John Galt. I have stopped the motormouths of the world.”
Hal, open the pod bay doors.
Hal, open the pod bay doors.
Hal?
Hal!
Who is Frances Haugen???
Just as well.
We could redirect that domain to FR, I suppose. Their users' faces would melt before our routers do.
Pickup trucks at Facebook, oh that’s a good one!
Oh, my sides😂 Think a Prius or a Tesla can do it?
I worked on the construction of a facility that had remote access to the HVAC. Not long after it was occupied the doors wouldn’t shut because they had swollen from moisture in the air.
A variable was set wrong. The HVAC computer thought the CO2 level was too high so it kept bringing in more outside air which, because of the temperature signaled for more heat and also more AC to deal with the humidity.
What a cluster.
Heh.
I haven’t noticed a thing and I like it that way. 👍🏻
I really do hope the crazies eat those liberal elites alive. They deserve it. I am not talking metaphorically.
The door mat was also disabled.
Golly, I feel bad for those FB posters who will sit at their tables tonight at Applebee’s with a plated burger and onion rings and no one to send a picture of it to.
DNS poisoning is one thing. Trashing BGP routing gkobally is something else again.
If you lie to a friend that’s one thing.
BUT!!! If your “product” is INFORMATION and you lie...
THAT’S FRAUD! Out and out FRAUD!
😂
Telegram is down too.
Imagine the hordes of mindless twits without screen time to distract them.
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